Milton and Vickie Cole of Heflin went to the store the day after his June Social Security check was scheduled to be deposited in their account and were surprised to discover they didn’t have enough money to pay for their groceries.

Summer workouts and play dates ended for the Cleburne County football Tigers at the annual Piedmont 7-on-7 passing competition Saturday. No football activities were scheduled this week. Practice for the 2015 season begins Monday.

For years conservative friends have asked whether social liberals really believe what they say. Yes they do. They claim to be more open-minded and more intellectually astute. But, their ideology has nothing to do with logic and everything to do with worshipping and protecting sacred political issues.

The City Council Monday evening approved a request from the city’s economic developer to harvest trees out of the industrial park, but members declined to allocate proceeds from the harvest to the board in charge of developing the park.